Behold, The First Issue In It's Entirety!

Good God would you look at that, I only now remembered about the blogspot page! I remember how the first post I made here mentioned that this will be updated weekly. Oh, how naive I was. To paraphase, Simon Brody of the great Drowningman once put it bluntly: "A blog is like a sink full of dirty dishes. You'd rather do anything else besides it."

Anyways, the reason for this occasion of the season is simple: I'm running very low on copies of the first issue of COAL. Initially I thought about just doing some sort of made-when-order type service, or just printing another 50 copies, but finally I figured I'd just put it up digitally for anyone who missed out. For those of you who (for whatever reason) picked up a copy, consider it something special. It's still very much likely that reprints of Issue #1 will be made for special occasions, like zinefests and stuff like that, but to assure you all the specialty of the original press, all reprints will lack the color covers and anything else to make them stand-out. Just like us American workers and students.

Anyways, once I do sell out of copies I'll be sure to make a post about it. Perhaps not here, but certainly on the much more active Instagram page (which is, as always, @coalzine). Also while I'm at it, Issue #2 is still very much a work-in-progress. Taking much longer than I had anticipated, but regardless it's coming out no later than July.

To get this all over with, here's what you've all came for: